As an archive environment, the two are offering a solution that can grow to a multi-petabyte scale whilst retaining the incredibly low total cost of ownership and the ability to obtain instant access to your data at any time.

Object storage all the rage

Object storage of the type offered by Western Digital-owned HGST is one of the biggest trends in the storage sector and is a way of guaranteeing low cost capacity. You can also combine object storage with flash to bring performance-optimised and capacity-optimised scale-out storage tiers.

Both the HGST Active Archive System and Commvault Simpana software are available right now and can be obtained as a single product through HGST channel partners.